Industrial Facilities
Connectivity for complex facilities with multiple buildings, assets and distributed control systems, unified into a single coherent data layer without replacing the control systems that already work well.
One data layer for distributed facilities
Operating a multi-building facility usually means walking a circuit of panels: the cabinet in building one, the process SCADA, the office climate control, the meters in the auxiliary building. Captia Connect unifies buildings, assets and distributed control systems into a single data layer so that circuit is no longer needed. The work rests on heterogeneous systems interoperability to connect equipment of different vendors and generations without rip-and-replace, OT/IT integration as the bridge to information systems, and PLC, SCADA and HMI programming when the control layer needs adapting.
A common layer changes maintenance, enables comparison across zones and buildings, and gives every future project an existing data base to build on. For deciding what to integrate first, see Captia Consulting for industrial facilities; for the energy layer of the facility, Captia Energy for facilities. Projects start with a systems inventory and one initial perimeter, validated with real data before expanding.
Frequently asked questions
- What is a unified data layer in a multi-building facility?
- A common point where the signals of all facility systems converge: process controls of each building, climate systems, meters, access control. Each system keeps running with its own logic, but its data stops living isolated in each building panel and becomes available, ordered, to the whole organisation.
- Can control systems from different vendors be integrated?
- Yes, that is the normal case, not the exception. A facility that grew in stages accumulates equipment of different vendors, protocols and generations. The interoperability approach connects those heterogeneous systems to a common data layer without rip-and-replace, keeping what is installed and replacing only what is not worth maintaining.
- Do you also program the control layer if it needs adapting?
- Yes. When integration requires touching the control layer, we develop new logic or modify existing PLC, SCADA and HMI programs, leaving signals ready to be read from the data layer. This work is planned with facility operations, using scheduled downtime when the intervention requires it.
- Who decides which systems to integrate first?
- The client does, and when that decision needs grounding there is a prior layer: Captia Consulting’s interoperability diagnosis produces the decision document (what to integrate, in what order, with which technology). Connect can execute that plan or work directly on a perimeter the facility is already clear about.